ART. 26.] CORPORATIONS.

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which shall, for this purpose, be regarded as substi-
tuted by operation of law, in the room and stead of
said former corporation, and all pending proceedings
at law or in equity, on behalf of or against said former
corporations, may be amended at the instance of either
party, so that the said new corporation may be substi-
tuted as complainant, plaintiff or defendant, as the case
may require, in lieu and in place of the old corpora-
tion.

77. Every corporation formed under the provisions
of this article, shall be subject to any and all provi-
sions and regulations which may hereafter, by any
change in or amendments of the laws of this state, be
made applicable to such corporation.

UNIFORMED VOLUNTEER COMPANIES.

Subject to sub-
sequent laws.

78. All uniformed volunteer companies shall be
subject to the laws for the government of the militia
of this state.

FOR CEMETERIES.

Militia.

79. No cemetery company formed under the pro-
visions of this article shall be authorized or empowered
to purchase, hold, or use for the purposes of burial,
more than one hundred acres of land, nor any ground
that shall b'e comprised within the limits of any city or
town in this state, unless the corporate authorities of
said city or town shall authorize the same.

Cemetery
companies.

80. No lanes, alleys, streets, roads, canals or public
thoroughfares of any sort, shall be opened through the
property of any cemetery company incorporated under
the provisions of this article, which is used or appro-
priated for the purpose of burial; but nothing herein
contained shall authorize any such corporation to ob-
struct any public road, street or lane actually opened
and used as such at the time of its incorporation, or
then laid down on any plat made by authority of the

Lanes, streets,
&c , through
cemeteries.